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And I will bring them against you from every side— <a href="/kjv/ezekiel/23.htm">King James Bible</a> Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side; <a href="/nkjv/ezekiel/23.htm">New King James Version</a> “Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Behold, I will stir up your lovers against you, From whom you have alienated yourself, And I will bring them against you from every side: <a href="/nasb_/ezekiel/23.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> “Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold I am going to incite your lovers against you, from whom you turned away in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side: <a href="/nasb/ezekiel/23.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8220Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD, &#8216Behold I will arouse your lovers against you, from whom you were alienated, and I will bring them against you from every side: <a href="/nasb77/ezekiel/23.htm">NASB 1977 </a> “Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD, ‘Behold I will arouse your lovers against you, from whom you were alienated, and I will bring them against you from every side: <a href="/lsb/ezekiel/23.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> “Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘Behold, I will arouse your lovers against you, those with whom your soul was disgusted, and I will bring them against you from every side: <a href="/amp/ezekiel/23.htm">Amplified Bible</a> “Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD, ‘Behold, I will stir up your lovers (allies) against you, from whom you turned away in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side: <a href="/csb/ezekiel/23.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> “Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Lord GOD says: I am going to incite your lovers against you, those you turned away from in disgust. I will bring them against you from every side: <a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/23.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Therefore Oholibah, this is what the Lord GOD says: I am going to incite your lovers against you, those you turned away from in disgust. I will bring them against you from every side: <a href="/asv/ezekiel/23.htm">American Standard Version</a> Therefore, O Oholibah, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy soul is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side: <a href="/cev/ezekiel/23.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> The LORD God said: Oholibah, though you no longer want to be around your lovers, they will surround you like enemies, when I turn them against you. <a href="/erv/ezekiel/23.htm">English Revised Version</a> Therefore, O Oholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy soul is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side; <a href="/gwt/ezekiel/23.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> "Oholibah, this is what the Almighty LORD says: I'm going to stir up your lovers against you. They are the lovers you turned away from in disgust. I will bring them against you from every side. <a href="/gnt/ezekiel/23.htm">Good News Translation</a> "Now then, Oholibah, this is what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying to you. You are tired of those lovers, but I will make them angry with you and bring them to surround you. <a href="/isv/ezekiel/23.htm">International Standard Version</a> "Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Look! I'm about to stir up your lovers against you, the ones from whom you've turned away in disgust. I'm going to bring them against you from every direction— <a href="/msb/ezekiel/23.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Lord GOD says: ?I will incite your lovers against you, those from whom you turned away in disgust. And I will bring them against you from every side? <a href="/net/ezekiel/23.htm">NET Bible</a> "Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the sovereign LORD says: Look here, I am about to stir up against you the lovers with whom you were disgusted; I will bring them against you from every side: <a href="/nheb/ezekiel/23.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> "Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD: 'Look, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side: <a href="/wbt/ezekiel/23.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side; <a href="/web/ezekiel/23.htm">World English Bible</a> “Therefore, Oholibah, the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side: <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/ezekiel/23.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> Therefore, O Aholibah, thus said Lord YHWH: Behold, I am stirring up your lovers against you, "" From whom your soul has been alienated, "" And have brought them in against you from all around. <a href="/ylt/ezekiel/23.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> Therefore, O Aholibah, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am stirring up thy lovers against thee, From whom thy soul hath been alienated, And have brought them in against thee from round about. <a href="/slt/ezekiel/23.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> For this, O Aholibah, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Behold me raising up those loving thee, against thee, whom thy soul was rent away from them, and I brought them against thee from round about.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/ezekiel/23.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> Therefore, Ooliba, thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will raise up against thee all thy lovers with whom thy soul hath been glutted: and I will gather them together against thee round about. <a href="/cpdv/ezekiel/23.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> Because of this, Oholibah, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will raise up against you all of your lovers, with whom your soul has been gorged. And I will gather them together against you all around: <a href="/nabre/ezekiel/23.htm">New American Bible</a> Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD: I will now stir up your lovers against you, those from whom you recoiled, and I will bring them against you from every side: <a href="/nrsvce/ezekiel/23.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD: I will rouse against you your lovers from whom you turned in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side:<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/ezekiel/23.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> Therefore, O Ahlibah, thus says the LORD God: Behold, I will stir up your lovers against you, the lovers whom your soul has abhorred, and I will bring them against you. <a href="/hpbt/ezekiel/23.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> Because of this, Ahlyabah, thus says THE LORD OF LORDS: “Behold, I arouse against you all your lovers with whom your soul was disgusted, and I shall bring them against you<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/ezekiel/23.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> Therefore, O Oholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy soul is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side: <a href="/sep/ezekiel/23.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> Therefore, Ooliba, thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will stir up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy soul is alienated, and I will bring them upon thee round about, <a href="/parallel/ezekiel/23-22.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vET3Gmwku4s?start=6546" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/23.htm">Oholibah to Be Plagued</a> 22<a href="/hebrew/3651.htm" title="3651: lā·ḵên (Adv) -- So, thus. From kuwn; properly, set upright; hence just; but usually rightly or so.">Therefore,</a> <a href="/hebrew/172.htm" title="172: ’ā·ho·lî·ḇāh (N-proper-fs) -- (similarly with 'Oholah) for hoholiybahh; from 'ohel; my tent (is) in her; Oholibah, a symbolic name for Judah.">Oholibah,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3541.htm" title="3541: kōh- (Adv) -- Thus, here. From the prefix k and huw'; properly, like this, i.e. By implication, thus; also here; or now.">this is what</a> <a href="/hebrew/136.htm" title="136: ’ă·ḏō·nāy (N-proper-ms) -- Lord. Am emphatic form of 'adown; the Lord.">the Lord</a> <a href="/hebrew/3069.htm" title="3069: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- YHWH. A variation of Yhovah.">GOD</a> <a href="/hebrew/2005.htm" title="2005: hin·nî (Interjection:: 1cs) -- Lo! behold! A primitive particle; lo!; also if."></a> <a href="/hebrew/559.htm" title="559: ’ā·mar (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To utter, say. A primitive root; to say.">says:</a> <a href="/hebrew/5782.htm" title="5782: mê·‘îr (V-Hifil-Prtcpl-ms) -- To rouse oneself, awake. A primitive root; to wake.">‘I will incite</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/157.htm" title="157: mə·’a·hă·ḇa·yiḵ (V-Piel-Prtcpl-mpc:: 2fs) -- To love. Or raheb; a primitive root; to have affection for.">your lovers</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘ā·la·yiḵ (Prep:: 2fs) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">against you,</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’êṯ (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer- (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.">those</a> <a href="/hebrew/5315.htm" title="5315: nap̄·šêḵ (N-fsc:: 2fs) -- From naphash; properly, a breathing creature, i.e. Animal of vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense.">from whom</a> <a href="/hebrew/mê·hem (Prep-m:: Pro-3mp) -- "></a> <a href="/hebrew/5361.htm" title="5361: nā·qə·‘āh (V-Qal-Perf-3fs) -- To be alienated or estranged. A primitive root; to feel aversion.">you turned away in disgust.</a> <a href="/hebrew/935.htm" title="935: wa·hă·ḇê·ṯîm (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-ConjPerf-1cs:: 3mp) -- To come in, come, go in, go. A primitive root; to go or come.">And I will bring them</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘ā·la·yiḵ (Prep:: 2fs) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">against you</a> <a href="/hebrew/5439.htm" title="5439: mis·sā·ḇîḇ (Prep-m:: Adv) -- Circuit, round about. Or cbiybah; from cabab; a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly around.">from every side—</a> 23the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, the men of Pekod, Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them—all desirable young men, governors and commanders, officers and men of renown, mounted on horses.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/jeremiah/4-30.htm">Jeremiah 4:30</a> And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life. <a href="/hosea/2-13.htm">Hosea 2:13</a> I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she adorned herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD. <a href="/isaiah/47-1.htm">Isaiah 47:1-3</a> “Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of the Chaldeans! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate. / Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams. / Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.” <a href="/jeremiah/13-26.htm">Jeremiah 13:26</a> So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen. <a href="/nahum/3-5.htm">Nahum 3:5</a> “Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms. <a href="/lamentations/1-8.htm">Lamentations 1:8-9</a> Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away. / Her uncleanness stains her skirts; she did not consider her end. Her downfall was astounding; there was no one to comfort her. Look, O LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed! <a href="/revelation/17-1.htm">Revelation 17:1-2</a> Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters. / The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.” <a href="/revelation/18-3.htm">Revelation 18:3</a> All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.” <a href="/jeremiah/22-20.htm">Jeremiah 22:20-22</a> Go up to Lebanon and cry out; raise your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers have been crushed. / I warned you when you were secure. You said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from youth, that you have not obeyed My voice. / The wind will drive away all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Then you will be ashamed and humiliated because of all your wickedness. <a href="/isaiah/57-8.htm">Isaiah 57:8</a> Behind the door and doorpost you have set up your memorial. Forsaking Me, you uncovered your bed; you climbed up and opened it wide. And you have made a pact with those whose bed you have loved; you have gazed upon their nakedness. <a href="/jeremiah/2-36.htm">Jeremiah 2:36-37</a> How impulsive you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be disappointed by Egypt just as you were by Assyria. / Moreover, you will leave that place with your hands on your head, for the LORD has rejected those you trust; you will not prosper by their help.” <a href="/revelation/17-5.htm">Revelation 17:5</a> And on her forehead a mysterious name was written: BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. <a href="/revelation/18-9.htm">Revelation 18:9</a> Then the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her will weep and wail at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her. <a href="/isaiah/23-16.htm">Isaiah 23:16-17</a> “Take up your harp, stroll through the city, O forgotten harlot. Make sweet melody, sing many a song, so you will be remembered.” / And at the end of seventy years, the LORD will restore Tyre. Then she will return to hire as a prostitute and sell herself to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. <a href="/jeremiah/3-1.htm">Jeremiah 3:1-3</a> “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers—and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD. / “Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness. / Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Therefore, O Aholibah, thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your mind is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side;I will raise<a href="/ezekiel/23-9.htm">Ezekiel 23:9,28</a> Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted… <a href="/ezekiel/16-37.htm">Ezekiel 16:37</a> Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.<a href="/isaiah/10-5.htm">Isaiah 10:5,6</a> O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation… from<a href="/ezekiel/23-17.htm">Ezekiel 23:17</a> And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.and I<a href="/jeremiah/6-22.htm">Jeremiah 6:22,23</a> Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth… <a href="/jeremiah/12-9.htm">Jeremiah 12:9-12</a> Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour… <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ezekiel/23-11.htm">Aholibah</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-18.htm">Alienated</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-1.htm">Arouse</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-10.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-9.htm">Lovers</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-21.htm">Mind</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-11.htm">Oholibah</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-11.htm">Ohol'ibah</a> <a href="/ezekiel/8-5.htm">Raise</a> <a href="/isaiah/51-17.htm">Rouse</a> <a href="/ezekiel/19-8.htm">Side</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-18.htm">Soul</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-19.htm">Sovereign</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-1.htm">Stir</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-1.htm">Stirring</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-18.htm">Turned</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ezekiel/23-36.htm">Aholibah</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-28.htm">Alienated</a> <a href="/joel/3-7.htm">Arouse</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-48.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/hosea/2-5.htm">Lovers</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-28.htm">Mind</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-36.htm">Oholibah</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-36.htm">Ohol'ibah</a> <a href="/ezekiel/26-8.htm">Raise</a> <a href="/ezekiel/24-8.htm">Rouse</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-24.htm">Side</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-28.htm">Soul</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-28.htm">Sovereign</a> <a href="/ezekiel/24-8.htm">Stir</a> <a href="/daniel/7-2.htm">Stirring</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-28.htm">Turned</a><div class="vheading2">Ezekiel 23</div>1. <a href="/ezekiel/23-1.htm">The unfaithfulness of Aholah and Aholibah</a> 23. <a href="/ezekiel/23-23.htm">Aholibah is to be plagued by her lovers</a> 36. <a href="/ezekiel/23-36.htm">The prophet reproves the adulteries of them both</a> 45. <a href="/ezekiel/23-45.htm">and shows their judgments</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ezekiel/23.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ezekiel/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/ezekiel/23.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Lord GOD says: Oholibah represents Jerusalem, as explained earlier in <a href="/ezekiel/23.htm">Ezekiel 23</a>. The name means "My tent is in her," symbolizing God's presence in the city. The phrase "this is what the Lord GOD says" emphasizes the divine authority and certainty of the message. In the context of Ezekiel, God often speaks directly to His people through the prophet, underscoring the seriousness of the message. This introduction sets the stage for a pronouncement of judgment, a common theme in prophetic literature.I will incite your lovers against you, The "lovers" refer to the foreign nations with whom Jerusalem (Oholibah) formed alliances, often involving idolatry and political entanglements contrary to God's commands. These alliances were seen as acts of unfaithfulness to God, akin to adultery. The incitement of these nations against Jerusalem is a reversal of fortunes, where those once considered allies become adversaries. This reflects the biblical principle that reliance on worldly powers rather than God leads to downfall (<a href="/isaiah/31.htm">Isaiah 31:1</a>).those from whom you turned away in disgust. This phrase indicates a history of broken alliances and failed relationships. Jerusalem's turning away "in disgust" suggests a rejection or betrayal of these nations after using them for political gain. Historically, Judah often vacillated between alliances with Egypt, Assyria, and Babylon, leading to instability and eventual judgment. This turning away also symbolizes the spiritual adultery of abandoning God for idols, only to later reject those idols when they proved untrustworthy.And I will bring them against you from every side— The comprehensive nature of the impending judgment is highlighted here. The phrase "from every side" suggests a total encirclement and inescapable siege, historically fulfilled in the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem. This reflects the Deuteronomic curses for covenant unfaithfulness (<a href="/deuteronomy/28-49.htm">Deuteronomy 28:49-52</a>). Theologically, it underscores the inevitability of divine judgment when God's people persist in sin. The imagery of being surrounded also foreshadows the ultimate judgment and need for redemption, pointing to the necessity of a savior, fulfilled in Jesus Christ.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/o/oholibah.htm">Oholibah</a> A symbolic name representing the southern kingdom of Judah. In <a href="/bsb/ezekiel/23.htm">Ezekiel 23</a>, Oholibah is depicted as an unfaithful woman who has turned away from God to pursue alliances with foreign nations. 2. <a href="/topical/t/the_lord_god.htm">The Lord GOD</a> The sovereign and righteous God of Israel, who speaks through the prophet Ezekiel to pronounce judgment on Judah for her unfaithfulness. 3. <a href="/topical/l/lovers.htm">Lovers</a> Refers to the foreign nations with whom Judah sought alliances, such as Egypt, Assyria, and Babylon. These nations are depicted as former allies who will now turn against Judah. 4. <a href="/topical/e/ezekiel.htm">Ezekiel</a> A prophet of God who ministered to the exiles in Babylon. He conveyed God's messages of judgment and hope to the people of Israel. 5. <a href="/topical/j/judah.htm">Judah</a> The southern kingdom of Israel, which is the focus of God's judgment in this passage due to its idolatry and political alliances with pagan nations.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_unfaithfulness.htm">The Consequences of Unfaithfulness</a> Just as Judah faced consequences for her unfaithfulness, believers today must recognize that turning away from God leads to spiritual and sometimes physical consequences. <a href="/topical/t/the_futility_of_worldly_alliances.htm">The Futility of Worldly Alliances</a> Judah's reliance on foreign nations serves as a warning against placing our trust in worldly powers or solutions instead of God. <a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_in_judgment.htm">God's Sovereignty in Judgment</a> God's ability to use even Judah's former allies as instruments of judgment demonstrates His sovereignty and control over all nations and events. <a href="/topical/r/repentance_and_restoration.htm">Repentance and Restoration</a> While this passage focuses on judgment, it also serves as a call to repentance, reminding us that God desires restoration and faithfulness from His people. <a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_spiritual_fidelity.htm">The Importance of Spiritual Fidelity</a> The metaphor of an unfaithful spouse underscores the importance of remaining spiritually faithful to God, avoiding idolatry in all its forms.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_ezekiel_23.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Ezekiel 23</a> <a href="/q/how_does_ezekiel_23_align_with_history.htm">How can the events described in Ezekiel 23 align with scientific and historical records, given the seemingly exaggerated depictions of judgment and punishment? </a> <a href="/q/why_is_god_both_merciful_and_vengeful.htm">What explains the apparent inconsistency between God’s merciful nature elsewhere and the violent retribution depicted in Ezekiel 23:22–27? </a> <a href="/q/why_send_an_evil_spirit_in_judges_9_23.htm">Why would God send an evil spirit between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem (Judges 9:23)?</a> <a href="/q/does_elijah's_challenge_align_with_monotheism.htm">How does Elijah's challenge to the prophets of Baal in 1 Kings 18:21-24 align or conflict with other biblical teachings on monotheism?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/ezekiel/23.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(22) I will bring them against thee.--Here, as everywhere, the fitness of the punishment to the sin, the correlation between them, is strongly brought out. Israel had chosen the idolatries of Egypt, Assyria, and Babylon, and these had drawn down upon her the vengeance of Him in whom alone was her refuge; she had sought strength in their political alliance, and they overwhelmed her with desolation.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ezekiel/23.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verses 22, 23. - The lovers from whom the mind of Judah was alienated were, as in Ver. 17, the Chaldeans. With these are joined Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa. The Authorized and Revised Versions, following the LXX. take these as proper names, and Ewald Smend, and Furst find in them those of Chaldean tribes. The Vulgate, followed by Luther, gives nobiles, tyrannosque, et principes, and Keil and Hengstenberg substantially adopt this rendering, giving "rulers, lords, and nobles." "Pekod" appears as a place in Jeremiah I. 20 (compare Schrader's 'Cuneiform Inscriptions,' 2. pp. 32, 117,120, where Shoa and Koa are identified with Medo-Elamite tribes east of the Tigris), but the ether names are unknown to history. On the whole, the balance seems in favor of the rendering in the text. With these are joined all the Assyrians, who, under Nebuchadnezzar, fought, of course, in his armies." Now she should see her desirable young men... riding upon horses (the prophet repeats with sarcasm the phrase of Ver. 12) in another guise than she had expected. <a href="/commentaries/ezekiel/23-22.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>Therefore, לָכֵ֣ן (lā·ḵên) Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3651.htm">Strong's 3651: </a> So -- thus Oholibah, אָהֳלִיבָ֗ה (’ā·ho·lî·ḇāh) Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_172.htm">Strong's 172: </a> Oholibah -- 'tent in her', a symbolic name for Jerusalem this is what כֹּֽה־ (kōh-) Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3541.htm">Strong's 3541: </a> Like this, thus, here, now the Lord אֲדֹנָ֣י (’ă·ḏō·nāy) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_136.htm">Strong's 136: </a> The Lord GOD יְהוִה֒ (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3069.htm">Strong's 3069: </a> YHWH says: אָמַר֮ (’ā·mar) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_559.htm">Strong's 559: </a> To utter, say ‘I will incite מֵעִ֤יר (mê·‘îr) Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5782.htm">Strong's 5782: </a> To rouse oneself, awake your lovers מְאַהֲבַ֙יִךְ֙ (mə·’a·hă·ḇa·yiḵ) Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_157.htm">Strong's 157: </a> To have affection f against you, עָלַ֔יִךְ (‘ā·la·yiḵ) Preposition | second person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> Above, over, upon, against those אֲשֶׁר־ (’ă·šer-) Pronoun - relative <a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that from whom נַפְשֵׁ֖ךְ (nap̄·šêḵ) Noun - feminine singular construct | second person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5315.htm">Strong's 5315: </a> A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion you turned in disgust. נָקְעָ֥ה (nā·qə·‘āh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5361.htm">Strong's 5361: </a> To be alienated or estranged And I will bring them וַהֲבֵאתִ֥ים (wa·hă·ḇê·ṯîm) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular | third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_935.htm">Strong's 935: </a> To come in, come, go in, go against you עָלַ֖יִךְ (‘ā·la·yiḵ) Preposition | second person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> Above, over, upon, against from every side— מִסָּבִֽיב׃ (mis·sā·ḇîḇ) Preposition-m | Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5439.htm">Strong's 5439: </a> A circle, neighbour, environs, around <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezekiel/23-22.htm">Ezekiel 23:22 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/ezekiel/23-22.htm">Ezekiel 23:22 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/ezekiel/23-22.htm">Ezekiel 23:22 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/ezekiel/23-22.htm">Ezekiel 23:22 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/ezekiel/23-22.htm">Ezekiel 23:22 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/ezekiel/23-22.htm">Ezekiel 23:22 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezekiel/23-22.htm">Ezekiel 23:22 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezekiel/23-22.htm">Ezekiel 23:22 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/ezekiel/23-22.htm">Ezekiel 23:22 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/ezekiel/23-22.htm">Ezekiel 23:22 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-22.htm">OT Prophets: Ezekiel 23:22 Therefore Oholibah thus says the Lord Yahweh: (Ezek. 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